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35 Facts About A 35 Year Old

Apparently I’m
middle-aged now. So I’ve been told. Which, well it seems like a pretty harsh
thing to tell me but I guess that makes it no less true. The truth hurts and
all that. Anyhow, let’s celebrate my middle-agedom with a list of things about
me that you may or may not be aware of.

Also, here I am in Monaco last summer when I was still youthful.

1. If I am sleeping alone I still sleep cuddled up to the soft toy
I got when I was a baby. I know. I’m adorable. It’s a popple, if you wondered.

2. I love lists. Hence this one.

3. I hate to drive. I’m also not very good at it. The two things
are probably connected.

4. I have a lot of nosebleeds. They happen at any time and for no
reason whatsoever. This has been a thing throughout my whole entire life. It’s
tiresome.

5. If I was only allowed to eat one food for the rest of forever,
that food would probably be marmite on toast. Preferably made by my Mum but I
appreciate that making me toast for all of forever is a massive ask and she has
a life so my own toast making skills would suffice.

6. I love the sea. I. LOVE. THE. SEA.

7. My favourite colour is purple.

8. I drink too much coffee.

9. I have one sibling. A
brother. He is five years younger and one foot taller than me.

10. I have never broken a bone.

11. I hate lies

12. I used to feel sad that I didn’t have a middle name so if
anybody asked I would say it was Mary because I once saw the name Josephine
Mary on a gravestone. I was a strange child.

13. I have ‘an unhealthy relationship with food,’ This is a thing I
am constantly working on.

14. I love cuddles. Like, seriously, I love to cuddle and be
cuddled. I also love holding hands. If you are my person then you will likely
be aggravated at some point by my invasion of your personal space. What are
boundaries?

15. I used to be afraid of the dark, now I struggle to sleep with
the light on.

16. I am left handed.

17. I buy more books than I will ever be able to read or than I
will ever have space for. It’s a problem.

18. I hate being too cold.

19. I also hate being too hot.

20. I do not do enough exercise.

21. I have never smoked a cigarette.

22. I book my birthday off
work every year because even if all I do is sit around in my pyjamas all day
eating hula hoops, it’s a better celebration than being sat at my desk.

23. I only like broccoli if it’s in a soup with Stilton. Or mashed.

24. I am a fast reader. Not super fast, but fast.

25. I really wish I could speak French. I am determined to learn.
Hello Duolingo app!

26. I love to ski.

27. I am not a tidy person. I want to be a tidy person but alas
(earwax) I am not.

28. I am totally and
utterly and indescribably terrified of the dentist

29. I have worked for the same company since I was 18.
Now I am in charge of it, and whilst I’m proud of that, I feel embarrassed when
people ask what I do and mumble something about working in an office

30. I love getting my nails done.

31. I am absolutely a cat person. I will probably end
up a crazy cat lady and I’m actually fine about that.

32. I dip my fries in my milkshake.

33. I have been 16% of the way through Anna Karenina for over five years.

34. I say yes more
than no because I worry too much
about what people think about me.

35. I am not on Facebook.

Happy birthday to me! I am currently eating tartiflette with my best guy which seems to me to be as good a way to celebrate turning 35 as any. Hurrah. Please, feel free to drink gin and eat cake in my honour- not that you should ever need an excuse to do either of those things.

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A bookworm in her mid-30's who likes sunshine and snow covered mountains and the cold side of the pillow and being the little spoon. Writes book reviews more akin to coffee with friends than any intellectual book club. Binge watcher who has been known to use holiday days to stay in her pyjamas under a blanket watching Ugly Betty and who thinks nothing will ever be as sad as Billy on Ally McBeal although some things come close. Does not believe in the term guilty pleasures - you do you, you gorgeous creature. A happy, sleepy, over-thinker.

About Me

Josephine. Mid-30’s (still not sure how to adult). Bookworm. Lover of coffee and marmite and pad thai. Hardly ever eats breakfast. Has too many copies of Alice in Wonderland. Also loves skiing and the sea and road-trips and laughter. Terrified of wasps.
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